Still life signed "Franz", see which of Franz?
 

Dear friends, the
This still life (oil on canvas: 34H74). Signed "Franz" in the lower left corner (three left photo).
Which is, in your opinion, from a family of artists from St. Petersburg Frentz?
In my opinion, this is very similar in style to the database presented in this urban landscape Rudolph Rudolfovich Frents, "lighted up" on sovkome. I spread for comparison (right two photos). Like? However sovkomovskogo Frents paint cheerful, bright, contrasting ... And contrary to our Frents muted colors, dark, depressive. But it is possible and combines them? After all, in either case, the artist uses his palette to convey your mood?
However, the signature in the two samples are not very similar - just like the letter "u" with the final stroke of ...
Or perhaps it was the younger of Franz, Vladimir R., one that traveled to Kamchatka and wrote about this children's book?
Maybe this is some Frentz number 4?
I would be very grateful for your expressed opinion, because I do not think that this still life worth the cost of examination.

I would have about the urban landscape did not assert that it is Frentz.

I have a set of postcards R. Frents, he did not like it.

Someone's joke.
This still life was not written by the representative of a family of artists Frentz, although they really know 4, you have not mention Harry.

As I understand your skepticism derives only from the fact that this work is not similar to those that have been published.
But surely impossible to suppose that the artists of the Soviet era, members of artistic unions, the master of social realism to lead a "double" the artistic life. One - the lobby, to confirm the official status, that is published and has participated in exhibitions, and other, secret, - for yourself?
Here, for example Shishkin Gallery now actively spins the Soviet artist, also a maitre socrealism November Gedenidze. He wrote the industrial landscapes and portraits of the builders of communism, but also express themselves through flowers, (read on their website).
Work Frents PP, which was presented at Sovkome, and with which I compare his still-life, also cause your skepticism, accompanied by examination Grabar Institute.
It is hard to imagine that someone could be a need to write such a very personal little thing, and sign her name not such a hyped in the market of the artist. Yes, and sostarivat canvas ... After all, he even really there is no market history, and the prices did not impress. I have the view of Rudolf Rudolfovich. All still lean toward him. Frents grandfather, who, before writing historical materialism have deleted for chronological reasons. Son of Franz, writer of children's books, does not seem to me a deep person (usually a son of wine vinegar), but what about Harry almost nothing is known.
In any case, thanks to all.

All known.
Here you even picture it, I have held recently, now hangs in the bank one, as much too:

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But the big (180h335) thing 52-year his father, Rudolf Rudolfovich:

But the big (180h335) thing 52-year his father, Rudolf Rudolfovich:

Work Frents RR:

Cyril Syzranskiy, Thank you, I meant that the network about him no information.
Your Harry is "cultural", in my depression Frents not like ...

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Well, this "battle" PP Frents widely known ... Classics of the genre! But is it not a pure officialdom? The same order of the party.

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Tjutchev, Thank you for your example did not disappoint me at all ...
The same tone of blue.
Too bad your photo is not visible technique. My still life as if written paintbrushes, rakes, or .. While your example of the academic course, unlike mine.

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Tjutchev, ... And more. Bad can be seen in the photo, but the impression that your Skater written on top of red base ... I too. I do not understand the technique of painting, but through a light smears shows that they are superimposed on the red (alovatogo tone) paint. So?

I can not help but lay there so wonderful Rudolph Rudolfovich Frents of the 20-ies, which found the net today.
Good luck connoisseurs!

Agatha Gregson, well, one in one with your still life!
A signature is something, a signature-on the nose!
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